Many different watches have been worn by Russian Cosmonauts, for example; On the first manned Space flight, Yuri Gagarin wore a Shockproof, water resistant Sturmanskie, these were based on a watch from the French firm Lip. In 1960 NII-Chasprom, a Science Institute based in Belarus, made a small number of Electro Mechanical watches for the Soviet space agency, they are very rare ...
The Soviet Union began to use combat frogmen during World War 2, from August 1941 early units operated from a base near Leningrad on Deckabristov Island. These units were disbanded at the end of the war and it was not until 1953 that a new naval combat diving unit was formed. The soviets were used to repurposing captured German equipment and it is likely that they also put captured Diving ...
During the height of the cold war the Russian Air Force was expanded and re-armed until at one time it numbered in excess of 10,000 aircraft. NATO forces gave the Russian MiG fighter jets what have become infamous codenames like ‘Flogger’,’Foxbat’ and ‘Fulcrum’. Russian Pilots using cutting edge aircraft technology, where highly trained and given the best equipment available to keep them ...
This watch is based one that was issued to all graduates of the Orenburg pilots school. The First Moscow Watch Factory "Sturmanskie" (navigator). Manufacture of this early Centre Seconds watch was made possible after the purchase of automated equipment from the French watchmaker, LIP. Famously this watch was worn by the first man in space, Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. ...
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